Re: GPU programming?

Am 2024-02-04 21:51, schrieb Steve Kargl:
> See the second paragraph of my initial post.  AMD provides
> ROCm and Nvidia supplies CUDA.  These appear to be available
> for Windows and Linux.  Are there any software/hardware drivers
> required to actually accomplish the offloading?

CUDA: requires parts (at least some libs) from NVidia which are not 
ported to FreeBSD. I have seen reports that at least parts of the linux 
parts work in the linuxulator 
(https://github.com/verm/freebsd-stable-diffusion). If you want to use a 
FreeBSD system to do that, I would suggest to use a VM with linux and 
give it raw access to the card. Not nice (from a FreeBSD side of 
things), but most probably the most pragmatic solution to get all what 
is needed in a easy way.

ROCm: No idea. I have not seen any report about it working or even being 
tried. But there was at least some discussion about it:
     https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/138
     https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1913

Intel: Maybe. We have spirv ports in the tree, and my limited 
understanding is, that SPIR-V comes into play when someone wants to do 
GPU compute there. CCing Jan as the port maintainer for the two spirv 
ports. Maybe he can shed some light on this part.

Bye,
Alexander.

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